ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,097, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Data transmission in an inactive state" was invented by Vivek G. Gupta (San Jose, Calif.) and Sridhar Prakasam (Woodside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to small data transmission (SDT). In an example, SDT is available for transferring information between a UE and a network, where a NAS layer of the UE is in a 5GMM-CONNECTED mode with an RRC inactive indication and an AS layer of the UE is in an RRC_INACTIVE state. To do so, the UE can be pre-configured to classify the information as qualifying for SDT. In addition, resou...